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Message by Matt McCoy - visiting pastor from Spring Church. Recorded live October 13, 2024 at First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham. Scripture read by Ann Hinz.

Living Faith

Even when there is no evidence of God, I will keep faith with the almighty.

• What strikes you about this amazing Psalm of Habakkuk?
• We have heard that the righteous will live by faith, now we see faith lived out. What strikes you about Habakkuk’s faith?
• Habakkuk speaks about fig trees and olive branch; what would you write about?
• What does it mean to keep faith when things are dire?

Habakkuk 3:1-2, 16-19

3:1 A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk according to Shigionoth.

2 O Lord, I have heard of your renown,

and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work.

In our own time revive it;

in our own time make it known;

in wrath may you remember mercy.

3:16 I hear, and I tremble within;

my lips quiver at the sound.

Rottenness enters into my bones,

and my steps tremble beneath me.

I wait quietly for the day of calamity

to come upon the people who attack us.

17 Though the fig tree does not blossom,

and no fruit is on the vines;

though the produce of the olive fails

and the fields yield no food;

though the flock is cut off from the fold

and there is no herd in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord;

I will exult in the God of my salvation.

19 God, the Lord, is my strength;

he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,

and makes me tread upon the heights.